The official coComment weblog

For all the readers of this blog I thought I might give you something to try out for tonight (ok, it’s night here, I don’t know what it is where you are… )

I made a ’silent’ update of our bookmarklet. We added some first Flickr support there.

It might not yet fully work, though. Please tell us if it works (or if not why).

If you get the message that Flickr is not supported, try Shift-Reloading the page. Sometimes the browser does not reload the javascript files of the bookmarklet. If this does not work, try restarting your browser, that usually helps.

Tell me what you think and don’t hesitate to point us to other systems we should support. The more people that ask for a system, the more we are stressed into supporting it.

Happy commenting.

We just release a bug fix version of cocomment. Sorry for the inconvenience, the server was a bit longer down than expected. I hope nobody lost a comment.

In this release we fixed some problems with WordPress blogs (the url was not correctly recognized). We still have to manually update the wrong information in the DB. This will take some time, so please bare with us.

Deletion of comments on the Your conversation page should now work as well. Last but not least we made some changes to the account settings.

Thanks a lot for all the feedback and bug reports we good. Please keep up the feedback so that we can continue improving cocomment. Please give your feedback in the forums, as before

Help us get on the digg homepage. Let’s try to make the grand slam: top 10 in delicious, technorati, memeorandum and now digg! We’re almost there, thanks for all the people blogging, linking and bookmarking us.

You guys are quick:

It just occurred to me that one could easily create a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will enable coComment if a comment form has been detected. So, I decided to make one quickly! It is very simple.

I’ve got it working for WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, MSN Spaces, and Xanga. Let me know if you run into any problems and I’ll try to fix it. But, as I browse to various blogs, it seems to be working.

Here is the Greasemonkey script: Automatic coComment.

Great stuff from SolutionWatch!

We are working on providing a code to all those who registered for an invitation. This should be done Monday morning.

This is amazing. I showed the service a few people yesterday night, including Robert Scoble, Euan Semple, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal and David Galipeau. I gave a few beta codes to play around, get some feedback from worldclass bloggers.

Next thing I know: we are the second ranked news item on Memeorandum. Scobleized! I am preparing an email to lobby for ten new servers…

So the time has finally arrived - the coComment service has hit the public (at least in a limited - eg invitation only to a few beta testers - sense). Nicolas (the man in charge at coComment) and I are here at the LIFT06 (http://www.lift06.org/ )conference in Geneva, and we’re spreading the word, and the invitation codes, for the launch of the Beta.

Focused on “Life, Ideas, Futures, Together” - the LIFTconference has been heavily focused on technology, entrepreneurship, communication, and the power of blogging. As such, it’s been a great place to selectively introduce coComment and get some feedback from the kind of people who really know about this stuff - and who we hope will soon be the hardcore users of our service. Even better, Laurent Haug -the guy who organized the whole conference (http://www.lift06.org/doku.php/people:laurent_haug)  - also happens to have been our key advisor during coComment’s development. Thanks Laurent for working your butt off to bring us a great conference, and for helping us bring coComment to reality! We hope you’ll continue to play an active role! (after you get some sleep)

After being here for two days, listening to a lot of smart people talk about what’s happening in the world of technology and internet/blogging enabled communication, I can truly say that I think we’ve hit upon a good idea at the right time. One of the overall messages I’ve been hearing is that it’s not all about the old “three c’s” of content, commerce or communication anymore. It’s about CONVERSATION. Blogging is enabling and building online conversation in a big way, but it’s reaching it’s limits on the current platforms. Entirely coincidentally, Bruno Giusanni - who gave yesterday’s keynote address at the conference - had this to say in his blog (http://giussani.typepad.com/loip/) on the subject…

 ”Robert Scoble and I were trading examples of blogging frustration over breakfast this morning in Geneva. One of the things that came up and on which we agreed is that most blogging tools are already reaching the limits of their capacity to provide the platform of a real conversation…

…there is a need for the next-level blogging platform, and for new tools in the blogging ecosystem that could help turn blogging from an instrument of mainly self-expression into an instrument of interaction and conversation”

That’s EXACTLY why we created coComment! (and I promise, he didn’t give us the idea beforehand!). We know there’s power in conversation, and we wanted to create a way to make the global conversation being enabled by blogs more efficient, more powerful, and more fun! Anyway, it’s cool to know that we’re addressing an issue that some serious bloggers have recognized. We’re eargerly looking forward to getting the service fully open to the public in the coming weeks. Congratulations to the whole coComment team - we’re almost there, and the blogosphere is ready and waiting for something just like this!

We finally managed to deploy the new 0.3 version of cocomment. As you probably already noticed, we have a completely new layout. We hope you like it. Apart from that (and a lot of bug fixes), we also added new features.

The blog box can now be customized (at least a bit, more is to follow later, here).

You can get an RSS feed of your comments now (in atom and RSS 2.0)

We improved the display of comments and added a read state (things you did not yet read are printed in bold). Furthermore, we added a color indication on the number of comments, showing if you contributed to this discussion. This is only shown on a page of another user, of course.

I think I forgot some important things we did, but I let my collegues correct me about that.

Have fun with 0.3 and tell us what you think, where we can improve or where we have to fix things.